Temple fairs have been a part of daily life in Beijing for hundreds of years becoming especially popular during the Qing dynasty. Scattered all over the city so residents could easily make their way to the nearest, some fairs were held as ...
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Lantern Festival, also called Shangyuan Festival, is celebrated on January 15 of Chinese lunar calendar. It is the first full moon night in the Chinese lunar year, symbolizing the coming back of the spring. Lantern Festival may be regarded ...
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It has existed since ancient times for young men and women in love to express their yearning for each other with food. In the Book of Songs, there are records like “throw plum” and “throw papaya”. In ancient times, ...
Population and Distribution: The Mulam ethnic minority has a relatively small population of 207,352 and inhabits mainly the Mulam Autonomous County in Guangxi Province. The remainder of the population lives among other ethnic groups, such ...
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US-based snack food company LesserEvil has introduced a new line of all-natural, nutritious Chia snacks. The range will be available at retail stores in January 2013. The crisps will be available in four flavors including Southern ...
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IDG News Service - A court in California has allowed Samsung Electronics to include Apple's iPhone 5 among the products alleged to have infringed its patents, while also allowing Apple to amend its infringement contentions to include the ...
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US-based casual dining restaurant chain Max&Erma's is planning to offer traditional home-style meals on Thanksgiving Day at all its restaurants. The holiday menu will include a choice of butternut squash soup or garden salad,slow-roasted ...
Kobo, a global leader in eReading with more than 10-million users, announced that its much-anticipated 7" Android tablet, the Kobo Arc, has hit shelves across Canada and the United Kingdom today and will be heading to France on Monday. The ...
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US-based ice cream manufacturer Schoep Ice Cream has recalled Kay's Classic Vanilla Bean ice cream over an undeclared allergen According to the company,the recall was initiated after certain Kay's Vanilla Bean Ice Cream containers were ...
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The imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy has caused Google to cancel an event in New York today where it was to show off new Nexus devices. The"super storm"has seen US authorities shutting down much of the Atlantic seaboard,putting the ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung Mobile on Wednesday said it would start rolling out Android 4.1,code-named Jelly Bean,to Galaxy S III smartphones in the U.S. Galaxy S III smartphones run on Android 4.0,code-named Ice Cream Sandwich.The Jelly ...
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IDG News Service - HTC has upgraded its flagship smartphone, the One X, with a faster quad-core processor, twice the integrated storage capacity, a bigger battery and LTE in the U.S. The HTC One X+ smartphone. The new model is ...
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Samsung Electronics intends to drag the iPhone 5 into an ongoing patent lawsuit with Apple,according to documents filed with a U.S.court on Wednesday.Apple,for its part,expects to extend its suit to include the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and ...
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Tablets running on Intel's upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail could come with the Android OS,adding another OS option for the processor platform in addition to Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8 OS,Intel said on Monday. ...
It's a rare event when one technological breakthrough can have far-reaching effects in fields as diverse as stage lighting, horticulture, entomology, energy management, and potentially, space colonization. Penn State researchers from ...
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